Cultural Change: from "doing agile" to "being agile"

This will be an evening about cultural change: from “doing agile” to “being agile”.

Our program

17:30 – 18:30 Welcome & dinner

18:30 – 20:00 Cultural change with Spiral Dynamics to transform from "doing agile" to "being agile" – Dajo Breddels

20:00 – 21:00 Fishbowl discussion on cultural change & general chance to chat and enjoy a drink

Welcome at Capgemini & dinner

You’re welcome to join us from 17:30 onwards at the Capgemini office in Utrecht (http://www.nl.capgemini.com/over-ons/locaties/). Dinner will be waiting.

Cultural change with Spiral Dynamics

Dajo’s 90 minute session is his final try out for Agile 2012 in Dallas this summer. Hence this evening is in English. His topic:

The most traditional companies are adopting agile methodologies. This is something the agile community has been waiting for for a long time. Finally, recognition! But alas it comes with some drawbacks. “Doing Agile” instead of “Being Agile” is one of those drawbacks I keep encountering more and more. “They follow the steps and procedures, but they don’t live and breathe Agile and its values”, is one of the remarks I get from disillusioned agile coaches. Values don’t change overnight by just showing people the agile manifesto and sending them to a two day training. Believe me, we’ve tried.

How can you change the values of individuals and teams or even worse, whole organizations? That’s what this session is about. There is a thing called Spiral Dynamics and it’s all about how people get certain values, why they defend them and how these values evolve over time.

With the help of Spiral Dynamics we are going to:

• Discover the different kinds of Agile implementations based on value systems

• Recognize them in our own teams and organizations

• Know how we can help teams and organizations move from “Doing Agile” to “Being Agile”

Fishbowl and drinks

After the presentation we’ll have the chance to further discuss the topic of cultural change towards agile in the lobby with a fishbowl session (http://www.unconference.net/unconference-methods-fish-bowl-dialogue/). Meanwhile the bar will be open and you ought to feel free to catch up with other visitors instead of joining the debate.

Registration

Total capacity for this event is 120 people (first registered, first served). Those who got an invite via Capgemini: please register either here or via Capgemini, but not both; seating is limited, please reserve just one seat per person!

Hope to see you there,

Wim Heemskerk, Arjen Veltheer, Mirjam de Jong